Goodies from some sweet prim friends!

I’ve had some fun things come in the mail lately!  Woo Hoo!  First, I ordered this lovely crow from Pam over at Olde Homestead Primitives.  She has some smaller ones that can be made into ornies or bowl fillers that I'm gonna have to get too.  They are so cute!  (Ugh! Can't wait to paint that wall within the next few weeks!).  Thank you Pam!

Then I won this awesome Liberty plate from Kat over at Cozy Country Home Fixins.  She is the sweetest thing!  She sent a cute little note with it that I’m going to tape to the back of the plate so I’ll never forget where it came from.  It makes me real excited about my primitive patriotic living room that I will be starting on this fall.  I wish I didn’t have to wait so long to get started on re-doing that room but it’s been fun buying (and winning!!) prim things for it.  Thank you Kat!

Lastly, I received this adorable Easter bunny from Lucy over at The Farmers Attic.   She sent it to me because I was her 100th follower.  It was a week later before I realized that I won something!  I was so shocked!  Isn't it just the cutest thing?!

Also in the box from Lucy was this sweet little cupcake pin cushion.  My four yr old was holding it and pulled on a button.  I thought he broke it off then I realized that it was a pin with a button on the end!  How clever is that?!  Very cute and what better place for it to be displayed than my sewing half-bath!

  

Then she threw in some little advertising extras which I love:  a pen, magnet business card and business card with a note on the back.  I love receiving little notes with my goodies.  I stuck it under the rabbit’s apron.  I just love having little notes somewhere on my goodies.  Does anyone else do this sort of thing??  I may not forget too soon where it came from, but I want to always remember the sweet person that poured their heart into their creations.  Lucy also sent me a neat little pocket testament of the book of John.  Thank you Lucy!

Moving on to more fun things…  I never have any luck at our Good will stores.  The prices are so high when there is something neat.  I’ve just about given up on them.  I still go every once in awhile.  But I discovered this junky old thrift store.  There are no prices.  You gather up all you want, take it to the counter and they give you a price on it all.  You can either accept it or deny it.  It’s actually kinda fun!  So I unloaded all this junk on the counter and he told me 10 bucks.  I said “That’s doable.”  Hehe!

Some of it I have already painted.  I am going to Missouri to visit some family this weekend and planning on hitting some antique stores.  There are some that sell Briwax there.  I can't find it anywhere around me.  So I'm gonna load up on a couple of colors.  My nieces use it on everything and LOVE it!  You can apply it with steel wool.  It sands, antiques, and seals your projects all in one step instead of having to do multiple steps and it's very durable!  Awesome!  I can't wait to use it.  Has anyone used it or tried it?

  Not sure what I'm going to do with all those plaques along the bottom of the picture.  I might paint on them or cut out some wallpaper border to decoupage.

While I'm on the subject of promoting products, I just discovered another incredible product for wood!  Our home has solid oak all over the place.  One of these days I'll show you what I mean.  It's beautiful but... lots of work to take care of it when you have three kids bouncing around your home.  This product is made right here in Oklahoma, not too far from where we live.

I'm ever so thankful that Rich helps out by doing laundry but when he washed jeans, he would throw them over the door to dry.  I started noticing that it was weathering the door pretty badly.

 

Here's a closer look.  EEK!

I lightly applied "The Victorian House" with steel wool.  Only wiping it, not rubbing the steel wool into the wood.  Wipe it off with paper towels until the towels are clean.  Look at the final result.  Amazing!!

I wish my pictures were better so you could see how incredible it really is.

I wish for you all a beautiful Easter surrounded by family and friends.  I pray that you will join me in celebrating the risen King, the reason we celebrate this delightful holiday.  Thank you for joining me on this day and have a blessed week!